Math 143 – Spring 2011
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Problem Sets Due Before Test 1
Only turn in problems that are not bracketed. Bracketed problems are additional problems you can look
at. Round brackets indicate problems that may help you with problems that are assigned; square brackets
are additional problems on material that you should know, but you are not required to write up solutions;
curly brackets are truly optional and may contain extra nuggets that you will not be required to know but
may be interested in.
Additional assignments and deadlines will be filled in over time.
notation
meaning
unbracketed
PS
1
assigned problem – turn these in for grading
()
helper/warm-up problem
[]
additional problems (you are responsible for content, but don’t turn them in)
{}
covers optional material
Due
Thr 2/3
Chapter
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Problems
Familiarize yourself with the course home page:
http://www.calvin.edu/~rpruim/courses/m143/S11/
and read the information there.
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Fill out the Information Sheet and bring it to class.
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Also fill out the availability survey online. Follow the link at
http://www.calvin.edu/~rpruim/courses/m143/S11/hw/
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Mon 2/7
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Go to RStudio (http://beta.rstudio.org/) and log in using
your KnightVision id and password and log out again. (Feel free to
snoop if you want, but for now I just want to make sure everyone
has an account.) Email me if you can’t log in.
1
Read Chapter 1, paying careful attention to the terminology used.
Keep in mind that terminology usually exists to make distinctions.
1
ABD 1
(1–3) (6)
ABD 2
(4)
10 types of variables 11 abortion 12 types of variable 13 retina study 17 diving birds
scatter plots
16a–d
5
fry table
6
endangered species
7
schizophrenia
14
beak width
convictions
3
Thr 2/10
Notes A
1 3–9
4
Mon 2/14
ABD 2
[18]
ABD 3
4 finches 5 population [6] spiders (7) shifting (8) units
9 rigor mortis 10 cod 11 meadow voles 12 bird immigration 14abce pigeons
17 survival prediction 18 LRS
(2)
spermatophores
body mass
(3)
[19]
swordfish
24a–c
plots
words
Created February 21, 2011 — See web site for most current version.
Math 143 – Spring 2011
PS
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Due
Thr 2/17
2/3
Chapter
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Problems
Watch the first 40 minutes of The Joy of Stats. (YouTube link on
the “from class” page.) Answer the following questions:
1 Hans Rosling is not a statistician. What is his area of expertise? Why is he interested in statistics?
2 What data is San Francisco making publically available?
(You can find it online if google for it.) What is their “dream
government data analysis project?”
3 When, where, and how did statistics start (in the view of
Hans Rosling)?
4 According to Hans Rosling, what is so great about an average?
5 What is the problem with averages? What else is just as
important as the average?
6 Florence Nightingale
(a) According to Eileen Magnello, why did Florence
Nightingale think it was important to study statistics?
(b) When did Florence Nightingale begin collecting data?
(c) What statistical analysis made Florence Nightingale famous? How was her presentation of statistics different
from what everyone else was doing at that time?
(d) What was the impact of her work?
7 What is a billion-pound-o-gram?
8 What is correlation and why is it important?
9 What area of public health did Richard Doll study? Was
his study an observational study or an experiment?
10 What biological example is given for an enormous amount
of data? (The only larger example given is “the entire internet”.)
5
4
5
6
Mon 2/21
5
7
Thr 2/24
6
letters
17a
mutually exclusive
18a–c
cards
26a–b
pebbles
alleles [7] snakes 9 cat [12] slots 13 tennis 14 hand washing [16] blinking
[17] peas [18d–f] cards 21 sensitive question 22 10-in-a-row 23 Hox genes [24] Hox
genes 27 blackjack [29] great generals 31 mamograms
(2–3)
18
hypotheses
6
other toads
9
mammal size
11–12
hypotheses
15a–c
1-sided or 2-sided
Created February 21, 2011 — See web site for most current version.
guppies
Math 143 – Spring 2011
PS
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Due
Mon 2/28
3/3
Chapter
6
7
Problems
13–14
3
T/F
binomial?
6
16
error and power
butterflies
8
mice
[9a–c]
bacteria vat
10
dice
20
ESP
Created February 21, 2011 — See web site for most current version.
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